Knowing how to grow food is an important step toward developing a locally-owned food system that builds sufficiency and community power.

The more we understand about growing and preparing food, the healthier we are.

The Food Shuttle maintains two urban gardens: a demonstration garden on Geer Street in Durham and a community garden on Camden Street in Raleigh. These locations engage citizens in growing techniques, food production, bee pollination, and health education.

Food Shuttle Learning Gardens

Located in the Southeast Raleigh Food Desert, theCamden Street Learning Garden is a green space in the middle of a city where kids, families and individuals can be in nature and grow food to nourish their community.

Packed into only a quarter-acre lot in the heart of Durham, the Geer Street Learning Garden is building resilient community connections and engaging people of all ages in the powerful act of growing local food.

The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle is excited to have two new Food Corps AmeriCorps members, Nathalie Kauz and Annie Kersting, and a new Share Our Strength AmeriCorps member, Caity Ashley, join the Food Shuttle staff for one year. Hear from our new AmeriCorps to learn what brought them to the Food Shuttle!

A Tucson, Arizona, urban farm brings residents better nutrition and builds community. It’s a win-win. An example of a different agricultural approach is Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, which serves seven North Carolina counties, recovering and gleaning about 6 million pounds of food a year that would otherwise have gone to waste.